What has Rachel Hopkins been up to today?
Rachel Hopkins is MP for Luton South and a member of the Labour party.
Rachel Hopkins has 9302 followers on Twitter.
"The job of central government is to give councils the powers to be able to deliver".
Following her #LGAConf22 plenary, we caught up with @lisanandy on @UKLabour's vision for #LocalGov.
A great opportunity for Luton's young cricket talent 👇
@PeshawarZalmi @LutonianCC
Enough is enough.
When will the Tories have the guts to tell this shameless Prime Minister the game is up?
#PMQs
Stagnant wages, rising poverty and rampant sleaze. The British public deserve better than this rudderless Government falling apart at the seams.
The Conservative Party need to grow a backbone and tell the Prime Minister the game is up
#PMQs
I fully support this @LGAcomms campaign.
It's really important that we have constructive debates in politics. Fear of abuse and intimidation mustn’t be a barrier to people representing their local communities.
#LGAConf22 #DebateNotHate
Anyone should feel safe to become a councillor and be proud to represent their community.
Today we are sending a clear message through the launch of our new campaign #DebateNotHate:
Abuse has no place in politics.
https://www.local.gov.uk/about/campaigns/debate-not-hate
Good.
Now British Airways should do the same - restore the pay of your loyal workforce which is rightfully theirs, and settle this dispute.
And then Tory Ministers should finally ban shameful fire and rehire for good, so no workforce is ever put in this position again. https://twitter.com/the_tuc/status/1541764113982001153
Unite WIN 🚨: 'Game-changing' pay deal secured for Heathrow cabin crew. 👏
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The Energy Bill is coming soon.
After the Conservatives' decade of failed energy policy, this is an opportunity to cut bills for families, boost green energy to tackle the climate emergency, and deliver energy sovereignty for the UK
Here are 5⃣ things the Bill must do:
It should never have taken this long.
But finally, the COVID inquiry will begin and the Chair's terms of reference have been accepted in full. 👇
I’m relieved that the COVID enquiry will finally begin and the PM has accepted the Chair’s ToR in full, including reporting ‘in a timely manner’.
Labour have been calling for this for months with @CovidJusticeUK
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https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2022-06-28/hcws152
Today I called for the Chancellor to pay at least the real living wage for all those who work for government - including contractors.
He refused.
The Tories are choosing to trap people in poverty pay as the cost of living crisis worsens.
Working people deserve so much better.
Look who I bumped into today!
Absolute pleasure to chat with @AzeemRafiq30 - I made sure to tell him about all the budding #cricket stars growing up in #Luton! 🏏
📺 WATCH: The Govt's approach to levelling up, with it’s debilitating beauty parades & ropey allocation criteria has been widely panned.
@UKLabour's alternative will get money to the communities who need.
The minister wouldn’t back it: tells your their priorities.
Ministers are the only people that can square this circle.
Nobody wants to see rubbish pile up in the streets, or elderly people left without help.
The government has to do its job 👇
Luton Rights, @HMCTSgovuk and @we_aredigital have teamed up to provide help for people struggling to fill in online forms.
Find out more and get in contact with them here:
https://www.we-are-digital.co.uk/lutonrights-user
Instead of trying to resolve the rail dispute the Tories are using it as another excuse to attack trade unions my piece for @LabourList https://labourlist.org/2022/06/breaking-strikes-using-agency-workers-is-recklessly-gambling-with-public-safety/
⚠️Pop-up Covid-19 vaccination clinic on Wednesday 29 June from 9am to 12.30pm at Citizens Advice Luton in Community House, 15 New Bedford Road, LU1 1SA.
You can get your first, second or booster vaccine if aged 12 and above
For more information, visit🖱️ http://www.blmkccg.nhs.uk/drop-in
Have you been waiting months for a passport or driving licence?
Have your travel plans been disrupted?
Still waiting for a hospital appointment or court date?
Sign our petition if you’re sick of Boris Johnson’s Backlog Britain. 📝
https://action.labour.org.uk/page/107869/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=tw-organic-post
Grant Shapps is lying to you.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/grant-shapps-misled-public-over-27328013
The Tory government are sitting on their hands while working people are being devastated by the cost of living.
This weekend, back Labour’s plan to tackle the Tory cost of living crisis.
Support Luton Lions EPIC 37 MILES TREK for Bangladesh!
#Luton @LutonLions
https://gofund.me/67309810
Pleased to be part of Luton's first Pride event.
Do come and join us in the Hat District.
The main stage is outside but there's plenty of other activities and stalls inside the Hat Factory.
☘️ Delighted to join @IrishinLuton for their AGM this morning. Such a fantastic community focused organisation.
👏 A huge well done & thank you to Noreen Kellett as she retires as a trustee after 20 years involvement with Luton Irish Forum.
Today, on #ArmedForcesDay we thank our Armed Forces for keeping us safe and for their service on the front line.
A Labour government would make sure our veterans get a better deal with fair access to the housing and the services they deserve.
The overturning of Roe v Wade is a major and deeply upsetting setback for women. It sends a message that a woman’s reproductive rights – which are fundamental to their physical, psychological and social wellbeing – are not worth protecting.
#RoeVsWade
A step backwards for women's reproductive rights.
I fully support women's right to choose and worry about the impact this will have on the number of unsafe procedures and on women's physical and mental health.
Horrific news from the US today.
Not only is this decision an attack on a woman's right to choose, it will leave the door open to dangerous, unsafe medical practices that will undoubtedly risk lives. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1540357946068148225
In this week's Parliamentary update:
➡️Home Office backlogs
➡️Aid for Bangladesh and northern India
➡️Access to GPs and dentists
➡️Luton Pride
🌹Wakefield is Labour’s first by-election gain from the Tories since 2012
🌹This swing of 12.7% would see Labour win an overall majority at a General Election
🌹Our best result in Wakefield since 2001 — and best ever on these boundaries
🌹Labour is now a government in waiting
I had my breast cancer screening today at @LandDHospital on Lewsey Road on @SarahOwen_ 's patch.
The whole thing only took about 5 minutes and your breasts only have to actually be in the machine for less than a minute altogether.
Full Rayner letter:
Angela Rayner has written to Simon Case demanding that he explain whether he was involved in looking for jobs for Carrie.
The latest in the Carrie CV saga - Rayner says there are “serious questions…about potentially impropriety and conflict of interest”. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/23/angela-rayner-demands-simon-case-explain-carrie-johnson-jobs/
Congratulations to @simonlightwood!
The new Labour MP for Wakefield. 🌹
Congratulations to @HarlowLabour 's newest Councillor @KayMorrison1. #LabourGain #Harlow #Labour @EofELabour @EssexLabour
Good luck @simonlightwood 🌹
Polls are now closed!
Thank you to everyone who has supported me.
Pleased to join the official launch of Luton’s first #Pride tonight. An excellent team has come together to get it organised, based on feedback from our LGBTQ+ community.
#PaintingOurRainbow 🌈
Today is your chance to boot Boris out of Downing Street and deliver a fresh start.
Don’t miss it.
Polls are open until 10pm. You can find your polling station here: https://iwillvote.org.uk.
I wrote to an FCDO Minister last month with @SarahOwen_ about the imprisonment of Yasin Malik, calling on the Government to outline the steps they took to ensure he faced a fair trial.
We're yet to receive a response...
This Public Services Day, I'm appreciating all of the brilliant public sector workers who make up the backbone of our country.
It's also an opportunity to remember the public servants and keyworkers who lost their lives to Covid.
The Tory Party are choosing to endanger the public's safety instead of addressing workers' concerns.
This is their latest attempt to play politics with people's livelihoods to inflame the dispute.
The body representing 3,000 agency companies wants no part in replacing safety-critical rail workers and hasn't even been consulted.
Operation of 25,000-volt control centres or 140mph train signals by temps? Really?
Bad for workers, business and public.
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/23/agency-staff-could-be-used-to-replace-strikers-under-ministers-new-plans-16876078/
This week is #LearningDisabilityWeek @mencap_charity
This year's theme is art and creativity and exploring how it helps to stay positive and connected. I thought the handmade bunting was a lovely way to demonstrate this in action.
C'mon Wakefield, let's do this https://twitter.com/simonlightwood/status/1539850747239596035
Polls are open. Today is the day!
Your vote could boot Boris out of Downing St and deliver a fresh start for Wakefield.
Don’t miss your chance.
Polls are open until 10pm and you don’t need your polling card or ID to vote.
Find your polling station: https://iwillvote.org.uk.
Great effort from Andy Kingston supporting @LevelTrust 👏👏👏
Donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/andrew-kingston4
Wishing the best to Andy Kingston of @uniofbeds who begins his 300-mile cycling challenge today.
Thank you for thinking of us ❤️
You can find out more and donate by clicking on the link below.
https://www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/cycle-challenge-to-support-luton-charity-level-trust-which-helps-youngsters-in-poverty-3739176
☀️On the Labour campaign trail in Wakefield for Simon Lightwood with @NavPMishra & @JudithCummins today.
Vote Labour on Thursday 23 June to give Wakefield a fresh start🌹
#WinningWakefield #LabourDoorstep #GOTV
Thousands of holiday flights cancelled.
People unable to renew their passports.
Biggest rail strike in a generation.
The Tories simply aren’t doing their job.
#PMQs
I fully support women in Northern Ireland’s access to safe, legal abortion services.
Here's my statement on today's vote on the Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2022 (SI, 2022, No. 554) 👇
https://www.rachelhopkins.org/2022/06/22/abortion-in-northern-ireland-abortion-northern-ireland-regulations-2022-si-2022-no-554/
"Corruption creeps, it corrodes and honour and trust, once lost, are very hard to win back."
Excellent speech from @PutneyFleur👇
The Tories had to be dragged kicking and screaming last night to commit to even appointing a new Ethics Advisor.
After the previous incumbents resigned in disgust at the conduct of this Government, they clearly need to be put in special measures.
@AngelaRayner @rach_hopkins
Voter ID will disenfranchise ethnic minorities and those on low incomes, with taxpayers footing the £3.5 million bill.
It is a solution in search of a problem.
The Government should focus on tackling the cost of living crisis, not sowing division.
For every electoral fraud conviction in the last 5 years, the Tories are now shelling out over £380k.
Not only will ID requirements make it harder for people to exercise their democratic rights, it’s also costing us millions 💷
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/revealed-tories-spending-ps35-million-on-controversial-voter-id-cards_uk_62b19f9fe4b04a6173614795?aar
The Windrush generation helped build Britain.
But the Tories' hostile environment left many homeless, jobless and without healthcare. Victims are still waiting for the justice and compensation they deserve.
Windrush descendent @DavidLammy tells their story. #WindrushDay
World Humanist Day is an opportunity for humanists all around the world to publicise the positive values of humanism and to share the global concerns of the humanist movement. 👇 Learn more with @HumanistsInt
#WorldHumanistDay
https://humanists.international/what-is-humanism/world-humanist-day/
The GP workforce crisis is leading to patient frustration, staff burnout & sometimes even a lower standard of care.
We now have 1,600 fewer qualified full-time GPs in England than in 2015.
The longer we give the Tories, the longer patients in Luton South will wait.
NEW: Wes Streeting declares that "the longer we give the Conservatives, the longer patients wait" after research revealed that the number of GPs in the NHS has fallen by almost 4,500 in the last decade: https://labourlist.org/2022/06/streeting-warns-the-longer-we-give-the-conservatives-the-longer-patients-wait/
Bangladesh and northern India are facing the worst flooding in 100 years. Local communities need international humanitarian support.
Today I raised my concern in Parliament and wrote to the relevant minister on behalf of Luton South constituents concerned for family and friends.